"A full 86 percent feel that casualties would have been reduced ... in recent tragedies like Newtown and Aurora if a legally-armed citizen was present."

Their evidence flatly contradicts the fatuous uttering of previous US President Democrat Bill Clinton (who's protected by guards with guns), speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative America Conference on June 14, 2016:

“More people would have been killed if someone [at the Orlando Nightclub where 49 were massacred] had a permitted concealed handgun.”

Yet some cities as well as some police chiefs distrust even their law-abiding citizens to be armed - and still don't realize why so many of their citizens distrust the police in return...

1. Introduction to Gun Ownership 101

For those who don't already know that "more guns give less crime," a good place to start is with the trained researcher who "was not a gun owner, did not understand the appeal of firearms, and generally believed that gun control legislation was only common sense."

"If you're anti-gun and Lott's book does not ... force you to reconsider the ... benefits of an armed society, you either did not read the book with an open mind, or you do not know how to distinguish a precisely-reasoned argument from a merely political one."

Naturally, firearms remain optional even when gun ownership is encouraged. Nothing overrides local requirements for acquiring a license and receiving gun safety training, whatever your community requires for its citizens to have a firearm is still required.

Gun-control groups and demagogues are busy exploiting this tragedy, while many see their rhetoric as the cause of so many deaths at the church. They pretend not to realize that gun control laws simply ensure law-abiding citizens are defenseless against a racist murderer.

Martin Luther King applied for a concealed-carry permit in 1956 and his home was always guarded by armed men. Daisy Bates carried a .32-caliber handgun in her purse. "Time and again, guns have proven pivotal to the African American quest for freedom." Gun rights protected many blacks during the civil rights movement - and if they had not been illegal in Senator Pinckney's church would have protected innocent black Americans today...

3. With more guns, there are fewer defenseless citizens

US Homicide Rate 1885-2012
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Less Homicides with More Guns in Responsible Hands

Back in the Wild West the murder rate was around four times lower than today. Once gun control laws became more common, the murder rate climbed steeply, exacerbated by alcohol prohibition. When the turf wars between criminal gangs benefitting from illegal alcohol stopped, the murder rate dropped.

Some high profile assassinations then initiated further gun control laws and the murder rate again climbed steeply. The war on drugs, just like alcohol prohibition, has created both turf wars and gang murders.

If something happens, such as civil riots or responsible citizens turn to revolution again because politicians have passed laws which directly contradict the Constitution, you and your citizens will need to decide whether to obey their ever-changing laws or be ready and able to obey the Constitution and protect your family.

4. So Politicians are busy Rescinding Gun Control Laws?

Politicians all realize that to decrease violent crime and murder, they have to do what works! So they're all busy rescinding all the gun control laws, right?

Hardly! Many Republicans do support your constitutional right to defend yourself. But Republican President Bush signed Democrat Joe Biden's Gun Free School Zone Act in 1990 although there had been no - ZERO - school massacres before it was passed.

Average deaths in a shooting rampage when stopped by police: 14.3. But average deaths when stopped by civilians: far less - just 2.3.

So discourage violent criminals and terrorists from attacking your people. Encourage your qualified, law-abiding citizens to be able to defend themselves, their family and their property. Both concealed carry as well as the discretionary ordinance are entirely optional - there's no penalty and they're exempt from complying if they object for any reason at all!